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it's magic beans and ferry dust. >> john boehner's heavy-handed approach to leadership, boehner and the republican steering committee kicked four republican congressmen out of their committee seats for voting against party leadership in the past. but boehner finds himself in an increasingly weak position. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell refused to take a position on boehner's debt plan today. >> i have no particular observation other than i commend the house leadership for trying to move. the process along and getting to a point where hopefully we can have a real discussion. >> house democrats are cranking up the pressure. tim walsh of minnesota introduced a discharge petition on the middle class tax cuts in the house. if it gets 218 signatures, it would get a floor vote before the end of the month. >> this is an issue that we all agree on. >> democratic leader nancy pelosi announced a plan for the discharge petition last week. the petition keeps the focus on extending tax cuts for 98% of americans. i spoke to leader pelosi late this afternoon about the strategy and the latest de
it's magic beans and ferry dust. >> john boehner's heavy-handed approach to leadership, boehner and the republican steering committee kicked four republican congressmen out of their committee seats for voting against party leadership in the past. but boehner finds himself in an increasingly weak position. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell refused to take a position on boehner's debt plan today. >> i have no particular observation other than i commend the house leadership for...
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apparently john boehner didn't get the memo. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> we have seen people talk about a possible compromise. is that something that's accepted? >> no. >> democrats aren't budging. the union breaks news on my radio show. >> how will you feel if the bush tax cuts expired across the board and we started over with the obama tax cuts? >> i think that would be acceptable. >> former labor secretary robert rush and bill pascrell on the latest movement on the fight for the middle class. >> a judge orders mediation for hostess and its employees. but make no mistake, the vulture capitalists will get their cut. i'll talk twinkie. >>> plus john mccain continues to spiral out of control over benghazi. >> the chickens are now coming home to roost. >> the banks revolt against elizabeth warren. >>> and workers are threatening strikes at walmart stores across america. >> we expect our associates to do their job. >> josh ed elson has the latest on the workers versus walmart. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. democratic
apparently john boehner didn't get the memo. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> we have seen people talk about a possible compromise. is that something that's accepted? >> no. >> democrats aren't budging. the union breaks news on my radio show. >> how will you feel if the bush tax cuts expired across the board and we started over with the obama tax cuts? >> i think that would be acceptable. >> former labor secretary robert rush and bill...
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boehner's party is not doing well in public opinion polls, but boehner, he's just in denial. >> you go back to, you want to talk about polling, most americans would agree that spending is a much bigger problem than raising taxes. they want us to deal with this. >> actually, voters across the board think taxes should go up on the wealthiest americans. democrats, independents, and republicans all agree by large maintains they want congress to raise taxes on income above $250,000 a year. republican leaders are completely disconnected from public opinion. this is one reason republican approval continues to nosedive while democrats actually have a positive rating with the public. when voters were asked to describe the republican party, 65% of the responses were negative. and here's the -- and here they are. like you know, bad weak, uncompromising, need to work together, broken, unorganized, disorthd. one prominent gop pollster put it this way. republicans have run out of persuadable white voters. john boehner is ultimately responsible. he is doing irreparable damage to the republican brand.
boehner's party is not doing well in public opinion polls, but boehner, he's just in denial. >> you go back to, you want to talk about polling, most americans would agree that spending is a much bigger problem than raising taxes. they want us to deal with this. >> actually, voters across the board think taxes should go up on the wealthiest americans. democrats, independents, and republicans all agree by large maintains they want congress to raise taxes on income above $250,000 a...
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so john boehner has wiggle room. he can look like he's the tough guy to the tea party folks who have to vote him back in as speaker. tom cole is really laying out the policy. if they wanted to shut him up, he would have been shut up. and so, where does this leave them? they're not going to play the card on the debt ceiling because that was a disaster for them. they're going to say, you know what, we tried to say the democrats were not serious about spending cuts, but they have no option. they lost the election. you know, republican voters were lied to about the state of the polls. they were lied to about the state of america. and if they want to believe that this is the only path that only spending cuts will get them to deficit reduction, they can carry on believing that or get to a place where they're going to get re-elected. >> richard, i think the president is offering a great deal to the republicans. here's why. these guys can go home 98% and say, you know what, 98% of you, i got the tax cuts. i didn't raise your
so john boehner has wiggle room. he can look like he's the tough guy to the tea party folks who have to vote him back in as speaker. tom cole is really laying out the policy. if they wanted to shut him up, he would have been shut up. and so, where does this leave them? they're not going to play the card on the debt ceiling because that was a disaster for them. they're going to say, you know what, we tried to say the democrats were not serious about spending cuts, but they have no option. they...
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what a funny farm that was. >> poor john boehner. >> on a serious note, today a white nationalist was allowed to speak on multi-culturalism, while a predominant gay group was not invited, because they are just too aggressive. what are we seeing here? >> i think that it's unbelievable a party that has a minority problem with go to the founder of vdare.com, a known white nationalist and give him a panel. the american conservative union who did the invite, stood behind the invite is run by al cardenas, hispanic, one of the few hispanic conservatives, close to jeb bush, he's savvy on the issue of trying to broaden the party, for you to do such an obviously kind of insane seeming thing that makes the party look like it's coddling racists, cuddling up to people who have extremist views. >> the attacks on the president were juvenile and barely intelligent. we had marco rubio who in attacking the president said "i don't know what the south african constitution says, but i know what the american constitution says" a barely concealed attack on the president's antecedents, the president's father
what a funny farm that was. >> poor john boehner. >> on a serious note, today a white nationalist was allowed to speak on multi-culturalism, while a predominant gay group was not invited, because they are just too aggressive. what are we seeing here? >> i think that it's unbelievable a party that has a minority problem with go to the founder of vdare.com, a known white nationalist and give him a panel. the american conservative union who did the invite, stood behind the invite...
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boehner knows he's on the wrong side of the fight and so does mitt romney. mitt romney was in ohio today trying to sound very concerned about education. instead, he sounded once again like he's seriously out of touch. >> this kind of divisiveness, this attack of success is very different than what we have seen in our country's history. we have always encouraged young people, take a shot, go for it. take a risk. get the education. borrow money from your parents. >> someone needs to held him not every kid in america has parents whoare millionaires. was it just last week that in pennsylvania the republican de facto nominee was sitting down with middle classers talking about education. they were telling him we're concerned about our local schools. we're concerned about education. we're concerned about our kids futures. there's been a lot of budget cuts. why did he just say you got to suck it up. you got to send your kid to college. you got to just borrow your kid some money. this is about the dumbest thing he's said on the campaign trial. this is proof positive
boehner knows he's on the wrong side of the fight and so does mitt romney. mitt romney was in ohio today trying to sound very concerned about education. instead, he sounded once again like he's seriously out of touch. >> this kind of divisiveness, this attack of success is very different than what we have seen in our country's history. we have always encouraged young people, take a shot, go for it. take a risk. get the education. borrow money from your parents. >> someone needs to...
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bain boehner is spinning his wheels. president obama could be pushing these guys all the way until the break. he reminded the country of the steaks stakes today. there was a sense of urgency in the president's message >>> if we get this part of it right, a lot of the other issues surrounding deficit reduction are going to be a whole lot easier. if we get this wrong, the economy is going to go south. we don't have a lot of time here. we have a few weeks to get this thing done. we could get it done tomorrow. optimistically, i don't think we are going to get it done tomorrow. >> the white house is using all social media resources to get the message out and put pressure on the republicans. >> today, i'm asking congress to listen to the people who sent us here to serve. i'm asking americans all across the country to make your voice heard. tell members of congress what a $2,000 tax hike would mean to you. call your members of congress, write them an e-mail, post it on their facebook walls. you can tweet it using the hash tag m
bain boehner is spinning his wheels. president obama could be pushing these guys all the way until the break. he reminded the country of the steaks stakes today. there was a sense of urgency in the president's message >>> if we get this part of it right, a lot of the other issues surrounding deficit reduction are going to be a whole lot easier. if we get this wrong, the economy is going to go south. we don't have a lot of time here. we have a few weeks to get this thing done. we could...
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. >> speaker boehner had proposed $1 million a year as the dividing line. the president asked for a total of $1.2 trillion of new tax revenue in his counter offer in exchange for 1$1.2 trillion in spending cuts. according to reuters, the president has changed the way the cost of living adjustments are made. the president wants the debt limit extended for two years with periodic votes through a process proposed by senator mitch mckonl. speaker boehner met with the president at the white house again this morning and had previously offered a one-year extension to the debt limit in return for 1 trillion tlars in budget cuts. >> the offer was reportedly rejected in the white house. the senate will likely come back in the session the day after christmas. on another sad note, hawaii senator dan anhoy, a war hero and the longest-serving member of the senate. he had represented his state as a congressman on senator since hawaii joined the union in 1959. president obama said tonight, tonight, our country has lost a true american hero. according to the senator's staff
. >> speaker boehner had proposed $1 million a year as the dividing line. the president asked for a total of $1.2 trillion of new tax revenue in his counter offer in exchange for 1$1.2 trillion in spending cuts. according to reuters, the president has changed the way the cost of living adjustments are made. the president wants the debt limit extended for two years with periodic votes through a process proposed by senator mitch mckonl. speaker boehner met with the president at the white...
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speaker boehner is on the right track. speaker boehner is on the absolute right track. he's shown a willingness to talk about things that we haven't been able to talk about before. they need to sit down and hash this out. >> isn't that interesting? republicans won't answer the direct question because these aren't the kinds of cuts they are really looking for. in an interview with "the wall street journal" senate minority leader mitch mcconnell offered his wish list. higher health care, medicare premiums for the wealthy americans and an increase in the medicare eligibility age. he wants to slow the cost of living increases on social security. social security is off the table. on medicare, though, one part of the president's savings would come from increasing premiums to the wealthiest americans so there might be some agreement there. but raising the eligibility age for medicare recipients is an absolute nonstarter. the idea is unpopular and it's also inefficient because it increases the cost to seniors without creating much savings to the government at all. here's the bo
speaker boehner is on the right track. speaker boehner is on the absolute right track. he's shown a willingness to talk about things that we haven't been able to talk about before. they need to sit down and hash this out. >> isn't that interesting? republicans won't answer the direct question because these aren't the kinds of cuts they are really looking for. in an interview with "the wall street journal" senate minority leader mitch mcconnell offered his wish list. higher...
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rejected boehner's deal. it's hard to see how boehner will get a different outcome this time around. eric cantor looking right over his shoulder. you could make the argument that cantor is the big player who is not in the room. because if boehner does a deal with the president and goes back and tries to get the republicans to vote for it in the house and cantor says no, where are we? the president, calm, cool and collected and remembering what this election is all about. get your cell phones out. tonight's question. the president, calm, cool and collected and remembering what this election is all about. get your cell phones out. tonight's question. will republicans punish e speaker boehner for trying to work with the president? text a for yes, b to no to 622639. we'll bring the results later on in the show. joining me tonight is congressman emanuel cleaver from missouri. great to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> i'd like to talk about the congressional black caucus if i could. they have been very,
rejected boehner's deal. it's hard to see how boehner will get a different outcome this time around. eric cantor looking right over his shoulder. you could make the argument that cantor is the big player who is not in the room. because if boehner does a deal with the president and goes back and tries to get the republicans to vote for it in the house and cantor says no, where are we? the president, calm, cool and collected and remembering what this election is all about. get your cell phones...
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only 19% trust john boehner. and in the wake of tonight's developments i would imagine those numbers would get a little worse for the speaker of the house. joining me tonight, former governor howard dean of vermont and cnbc political analyst. mr. dean, good to have you with us, governor. >> thanks, ed. >> give us in short order your commentary without question, what do you think has happened here this evening? >> well, the inside baseball of this is really a problem for the speaker. you can't -- this is something you can't do. you can't have your budget overridden, as governors know, and you can't have a major initiative like this go down when you think you have the votes and you don't. it would not entirely surprise me to see eric cantor or kevin mccarthy, who've been waiting in the wings, kind of gently stack the speaker in the back for a couple years, to make their move after the new session starts. the fiscal cliff, as you know, i believe the country would be better off if we went over the fiscal cliff. we wo
only 19% trust john boehner. and in the wake of tonight's developments i would imagine those numbers would get a little worse for the speaker of the house. joining me tonight, former governor howard dean of vermont and cnbc political analyst. mr. dean, good to have you with us, governor. >> thanks, ed. >> give us in short order your commentary without question, what do you think has happened here this evening? >> well, the inside baseball of this is really a problem for the...
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boehner, speaker boehner will join us and say to the tea partyers, look, you know, we've got to move on. the country cannot be stagnant, standing in one place. can't do it. >> well, congressman, what about moving on with the likelihood of a kick the can down the road type of deal, where there would be some kind of temporary extension. do you think democrats would fall prey to that? >> i hope not. i want us to get a deal done. but i can tell you that a bad deal is -- i'd rather have no deal than a bad deal. and so, i don't know exactly how -- i mean, if the republicans keep playing these games, we may very well go into 2013. but i'm hoping that we'll be able to resolve it. because zandi is absolutely right. the more we show that we can't get things done in washington, that means borrowing becomes even more expensive, ed. and that means that our fiscal problems get even worse. and you said it a moment ago, going back to the affordable care act. the affordable care act reduces the deficit. so the question is, what games are being played? and, basically, what i'm saying to the speaker is
boehner, speaker boehner will join us and say to the tea partyers, look, you know, we've got to move on. the country cannot be stagnant, standing in one place. can't do it. >> well, congressman, what about moving on with the likelihood of a kick the can down the road type of deal, where there would be some kind of temporary extension. do you think democrats would fall prey to that? >> i hope not. i want us to get a deal done. but i can tell you that a bad deal is -- i'd rather have...
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speaker john boehner's congress is about to take the prize for inaction. this is not a bipartisan problem. as stated by both liberal and conservative analysts, "we have been studying washington politics and congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional in our past writerings. we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the republican party." let's not forget that this was also the year that senator mitch mcconnell filibustered his own bill, an act that drew the utter consternation of senator dick durbin. >> so this may be a moment in senate history, when a senator made a proposal, and when given an opportunity for a vote on that proposal, filibustered his own proposal. i think we've now reached a new spot in the history of the senate we've never seen before. i'm going to ask the parliamentary to really look into this. i don't think this has ever happened before. >> that's not the kind of history you're proud o
speaker john boehner's congress is about to take the prize for inaction. this is not a bipartisan problem. as stated by both liberal and conservative analysts, "we have been studying washington politics and congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional in our past writerings. we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the republican...
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they are part of boehner's strategy team? in the meantime, the white house is hitting back at boehner and the gop tactics. >> a question of whether or not we have specific spending cuts, the answer is we have. i understand they may not agree with all of it. but it exists. >> i'm joined by illinois congresswoman january schakowsky joining us tonight. congresswoman, good to have you with us. >> thanks, ed. >> harry reid now says it's going to be awful hard to reach a deal by christmas. where is this all heading, in your opinion? >> the republicans are in total disarray. i think john boehner went to the floor today to encourage his -- or to placate his tea party people saying the real answer is in more cuts and the president has to be clear about the cuts, which as you said, and pointed out, that we have been very explicit about that. i think it's going to be very hard for us at the end of the day and the end of the day is december 31, to come up with a final deal. and i think it only gets worse for the republicans. look, they w
they are part of boehner's strategy team? in the meantime, the white house is hitting back at boehner and the gop tactics. >> a question of whether or not we have specific spending cuts, the answer is we have. i understand they may not agree with all of it. but it exists. >> i'm joined by illinois congresswoman january schakowsky joining us tonight. congresswoman, good to have you with us. >> thanks, ed. >> harry reid now says it's going to be awful hard to reach a deal...
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clearly boehner is frustrated here. will he succeed or have a tough time getting his own caucus together vote on this? >> he doesn't sound good, does he? i don't know. those sound bites were pretty interesting. i don't think he can believe in what he's saying. i have been a little bit worried about youth turnout and really hoping that young people turn out for the president in the fall. it's not a slam-dunk. but speaker boehner is helping democrats. he is -- it's not just taking the money, it's actually saying that these students don't deserve the president coming to their campus. that this issue is ginned up and it's not a real issue. it's so outrageous. i also have to say, as you said, they did vote for the ryan budget. they don't care about this and now they claim to be the party of family values. what they're saying to students, okay, we'll subsidize your loan for a little longer but your little brother can't get his immunizations and your mom can't get her breast cancer screening. >> the latest gallup poll shows th
clearly boehner is frustrated here. will he succeed or have a tough time getting his own caucus together vote on this? >> he doesn't sound good, does he? i don't know. those sound bites were pretty interesting. i don't think he can believe in what he's saying. i have been a little bit worried about youth turnout and really hoping that young people turn out for the president in the fall. it's not a slam-dunk. but speaker boehner is helping democrats. he is -- it's not just taking the...
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boehner used to lobby for the medical device industry. he's now boehner's policy chief. it's called reverse revolving door. yesterday the house voted to repeal the medical device tax that helps pay for the health care law. it won't get through the senate, thankfully. speaker boehner has no problem with the influence of lobbyists. back when he was the fourth ranking republican, he admitted handing out tobacco lobby checks to house members while they were debating tobacco subsidies. >> one asked me to give out half a dozen checks before we got to the end of month. i complied. i did it on the house floor that i should not have done. it's not a violation of the house rules. >>on a totally unrelated note, the triple crown is proving highly elusive from the other. i'll have another has withdrawn after a tendon injury. the racehorse won the kentucky derby and the preakness. >>> tonight, i asked you whose job remarks was worse? 94% say mitt romney 6% say president obama. >>> coming up, chris rock speaks out everything from mitt romn romney's religion. [ male announcer ] the insp
boehner used to lobby for the medical device industry. he's now boehner's policy chief. it's called reverse revolving door. yesterday the house voted to repeal the medical device tax that helps pay for the health care law. it won't get through the senate, thankfully. speaker boehner has no problem with the influence of lobbyists. back when he was the fourth ranking republican, he admitted handing out tobacco lobby checks to house members while they were debating tobacco subsidies. >> one...
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of course, john boehner hates that one. the supreme court ruling says the penalty for not buying health insurance is a tax. this penalty applies to people who can afford to buy insurance but choose not to. there's still noç evidence of widespread tax on the entire middle class in the law. but republicans are still scaring americans into thinking that the tax man is going to be coming after them. watch how many times senator marco rubio of florida talks ability sicking the irs on people. >> millions of americans if they don't buy health insurance, they're going to have an irs problem. we're going to come after you with a fine. >> i don't think siccing the irs on millions of americans is the right answer to the question. that's going to insure a lot more people without having to sic the people on the ir srk. the only way to get rid of the irs problem is to elect a republican president and a republican congress. >> he builds up the myth about the irs and gives an opinion on it. this is how they play the game. if republicans
of course, john boehner hates that one. the supreme court ruling says the penalty for not buying health insurance is a tax. this penalty applies to people who can afford to buy insurance but choose not to. there's still noç evidence of widespread tax on the entire middle class in the law. but republicans are still scaring americans into thinking that the tax man is going to be coming after them. watch how many times senator marco rubio of florida talks ability sicking the irs on people....